HP Notebook Hard Drives & Solid State Drives Identifying, Preventing, Diagnosing and Recovering from Drive Failures Care and Maintenance Measures
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Windows XP 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314848 
Windows XP command line: 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;283080 
Windows 2000: 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;227463 
  Use the Microsoft Recovery Console periodically to run the chkdsk /p /r commands in order to 
check your hard drive for any errors, bad sectors, and/or recovery of readable information. 
Please refer to the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles for information: 
Windows XP 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314058&Product=winxp 
Windows 2000: 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;229716 
For more information 
Contact HP Technical Support: 
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/wwcontact_us.html 
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